On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:09:18 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > So I was just looking at this in more detail, and looking over the files > in /usr/bin/vm*. Firstly, /lib/modules is already blacklisted in my > /etc/prelink.conf and so I guess the last four lines before exit are > unnecessary. As Jakub quite rightly points out, we don't need to blacklist the kernel modules, since it never touches them. > But whilst some of the files /usr/bin/vm* are ELF binaries, some of them > are shell scripts. And looking at those shell scripts in more details I > can see that a couple of them, notably /usr/bin/vmware, point to > binaries in /usr/lib/vmware/bin. I think this may be too complicated to > second-guess. Not at all. Simply add "-b /usr/lib/vmware" to prelink.conf, along with the rest from the script. > The output of rpm -ql VMwareWorkstation is mind-boggling. ldd, grep, find and sed are your friends. > I just hope VMware either fix the prelinking Judging by all the negative feedback they're getting, I would think a fix will be forthcoming soon ;-) > Thanks again Keith. Groovy. - K.
